Job aid topic brainstorming

Looking through the Week 6 To Do list, I noticed that the Job Aid assignment is coming up... so I started thinking of topics.

My husband is the Work Study Coordinator at Bloomington High School North, so immediately I thought of creating something useful for him and his staff and/or students.

I asked what kind of Job Aid would be helpful for his students and/or his staff... and these were the ideas we came up with:

For students:

How to get a job
This job aid would detail the process of looking for, applying for, and interviewing for a job. This would be useful both as a teaching aid in his classroom and for practical use in helping his students find jobs. And because many of his students are learning disabled, a clear job aid using lots of graphic representation would likely be more accessible to them than some descriptive text covering the same material.

Cons: could be hard to create visual representations for many of the steps, especially because many of them require written components.


For staff:

How to handle behavioral problems

The Work Study Coordinator has two classroom aides. These positions are full time, however, because they are not salaried permanent position, there is a fair amount of turn over from year to year. So having a job aid to help train new job aids on how to deal with behavioral problems (which can commonly occur in special ed classrooms) would be useful for him. But also, it would be useful for when one of the aides is out, and there is a substitute in the room who might not be very familiar with protocol.

What to do during a seizure

Since many of the special education students are on medications that list seizures as possible side effects, special education teachers more so than other teachers really need to know what to do in case of an emergency. For the same reasons listed above (high staff turnover, uncertified substitutes, etc), having a clear and graphic explanation of how to respond in one of these emergencies would really benefit the staff and the students.

Con: There are some posters detailing the steps of dealing with a seizure already. I am not interested in reinventing the wheel.

Thoughts?